Pain. That's all that ran through Twilights covered head as she was dragged to Celestia knows where. She couldn't see who had her by the forelegs, but she guessed that they were earth ponies by the strength. They weren't going to let her go anytime soon, that's for sure since she was a princess. And having a princess as a prisoner would be very profitable. After a while of being dragged through what felt like, dirt, mud, and possibly some questionable at best substances, she felt herself coming to a stop. Twilight lifted her head and tried to see through the burlap covering her head, but all she got was a jumble of random shapes and splotches of color. But as luck would have it, the bag was lifted, only for Twilight to want it over her face again.

Her friends, all of them, were either a mangled mess or simply bound and gagged. Twilight looked to see what damage had been done to her friends. Rainbow Dash had both of her wings broken, blood dripping from one of them. Her muzzle was nearly soaked in her own blood coming from a cut below her left eye. Applejack was suffering from multiple gashes on her legs, the ones that had dragged her there seemed to only lightly treat her, only to make sure she was kept alive. Fluttershy and Rarity were simply bound and gagged, Fluttershys faint but muffled cries could be heard as she held one of her broken wings, the bone jutting through the skin. Pinkie Pie had a sort of choker around her neck, keeping her immobilized as she tired to stop the bleeding from her wounds. Rarity and Twilight had a similar collar on, but it was somehow keeping there magic suppressed. She could all but wonder how this all happened.

Twilight and her friends entered the Hayseed swamp, completely devoted to the task at hand.

"Remind me again why we're in this disgusting swamp Twilight?" Rarity asked as she made sure to get nothing on her pristine coat. "I mean, not to be rude or anything, but couldn't Princess Celestia send us somewhere cleaner to deal with a problem."

Twilight just shook her head at her refined to a fault from her distaste of anything considered uncouth.

"Like I said Rarity, Princess Celestia said that there was a threat to Equestria that needed to be resolved."

"But couldn't she have sent the royal guards or the wonderbolts. This threat might not be very nice." Fluttershy sadi, worry evident in her voice.

"Don't worry Flutters. As long as you got me here, we're sure to kick some flank." Rainbow Dash excitedly said as she sped around the group. "We are the elements of harmony, and we've, like, totally beat bigger and meaner things than what we're dealing with. Like those changelings, or Discord."

Fluttershy warily smiled as she trotted closer to Applejack. "Don't worry, Sugarcube. Ah bet all we have ta' do is take care of this fancy shmancy threat is really nothing." The orange mare reassured.

"And besides, after we're done with all of this, we can have a WE SAVED EQUESTRIA FROM A THREAT AGAIN PARTY!" Pinkie exclaimed as confetti sprayed out from nowhere.

Twilight was a little confused for a few moments before shrugging it off and deciding it was Pinkie Pie was just being Pinkie Pie. After a while of walking, the six mares came to what appeared to be an old dilapidated camp site.

"Alright girls, start looking around. I have a feeling that we're not alone here."

As each of the girls looked into each of the tents, Twilight couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched. Even though she tried to shake off the feeling at first, it just kept persisting and nagging her to be cautious. She hadn't realized how cautious she should have been until she heard Fluttershys muffled scream through the tent she was in. Twilight ran out of the tent to help her friend, only to see that the camp had been a trap.

All around Twilight and her friends, she could see steel armored ponies brawling it out with them. Before she could react, Twilight was rushed by three of the attackers, quickly being tackled by them. She tried getting up, using her magic, or even flying. After a few minutes of struggling, she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder, and then the entire world seemed to start slipping away. The last thing Twilight could see was her friends huddling together.

And now Twilight and her friends were here. She tried lifting her wings, only to feel pain shoot up from her back. She looked over to who she thought was her captor. She couldn't see what the stallion looked like, but she recognized what kind of armor he was wearing.

"I see your a follower of Sombra, aren't you." Twilight spat at her captor.

The aforementioned stallion was wearing an obsidian black version of Sombras armor, complete with a silver face mask in the shape of a Wendigos head. He turned to face twilight with a malevolent smugness in his red eyes.

"I see you know of us, miss Sparkle. Unfortunately you won't get to divulge any of this anytime soon." The stallion said as he got to eye level with Twilight.

"What do you plan to do? Ransom us? Sell us? or are you going to turn us against each other." Twilight stared daggers at her captor, making sure he didn't leave her sight.

"You think at such a small scale, Miss Sparkle." He chuckled. "All I need to do is a simple. Little. Thing." He nodded to the guards, causing all of them to bring up the six mares and put swords at their throats. "In order to cripple a nation, you must take away their hope and faith in their leaders. And what better way to do that than kill not just it's most loved heroes, but also royalty." He laughed darkly at his own proclamation. "I hope you six lovely mares enjoy the sight of the sky, for this is the last that you'll see of it."

Twilight felt utterly defeated. Tears ran down her cheeks as the thought of those she loved would react to her death. How would Spike live on? What would her parents do? How will her brother take it? Twilight could only do the one thing that she could control now. She looked up to the sky.

To her, it was the bluest, and breathtaking pastel of the day she had ever seen. I guess this is it then? she thought. She could even see a small brown dot soaring high above her, letting out the familiar screech of a falcon. At least one of us gets to see tomorrow.

As the tiny dot disappeared, a small black dot appeared high above the clouds, and it was growing. Time seemed to slow down as Twilight stared at the black dot, trying to figure out what it was. When the dot had gotten to the size of the bird, five more dots appeared. When she was able to see what the dot was, it had already impacted the ground underneath it, causing everyone to lose their balance. Unfortunately, this cause the sword underneath Twilights chin to slid across her barrel, almost instantly killing her as the fresh wound gushed blood.

All that could Twilight see was a blurry world with almost no sound. She felt her body slump to the ground as what appeared to be white shapes sprang from the trees. She could hear the ensuing battle, white figures coming in fast and quickly dispatching the guards. Some of the guards had started dueling with the white figures, timing their strikes. But in the middle of it all, Twilight could only focus on two ponies.

One was her former captor, while the other seemed to be a black coated pegasus mare wearing a cloak of the same color. Her mane and tail seemed to be a deep lavender, while her flank had a symbol unfamiliar to Twilight. The last thing Twilight could see before slipping into darkness was the hooded mare driving some sort of blade into the stallions neck.

Author's Note

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